Article databases

The ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education literature to augment American education by increasing and facilitating the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.

This resource covers all levels of education—from early childhood to higher education—as well as all educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.

Content Includes:Full text for more than 1,900 journals; Indexing and abstracts for more than 3,500 journals; Full text for more than 550 books and monographs; Full text for numerous education-related conference papers; and citations for more than 5.5 million articles, including book reviews.

This database abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.

TESOL-related journals

The links below will take you to the USC Libraries' online subscription page for each journal. You can search within each journal by keyword, or you can browse issues and examine the table of contents.

National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition collects, coordinates, and conveys a broad range of research and resources in support of an inclusive approach to high quality education for ELs.

CALICO, the Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium is an international organization dedicated to research and development in the use of computer technology in language learning: computer-assisted language learning (CALL).